Reply #169: I'm in no position to agree that the statement was misleading

[OnTheOtherHand]

Bottom line, I think what most people will take away is that Scheuren went looking for exit poll evidence of fraud in Ohio and didn't find any, which seems to be true (i.e., that he didn't find any). The man is president of the American Statistical Association, and so I hesitate to assume that he is mischaracterizing his own results. "Not a smoking gun" seems pretty far from an "all clear" to me; I'm not sure what they could have said that wouldn't be misinterpreted by someone.

As for the rest, it seems pertinent to me that the press release goes on to quote Steven Hertzberg: "The fact that there is debate over this at all shows that we need elections to be more transparent, more accountable, more auditable." I would have thought it was a good idea for election reform advocates to emphasize that point.